New minimum speed for US broadband connections

Tue Jun 1 01:27:24 UTC 2021

Agreed. My in-laws live in an area where there's so much wireless interference from neighbors that they can't even use the entirety of their 200/20 (or whatever it is) cable service. 

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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
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Midwest-IX 
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From: "Josh Luthman" <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> 
To: "NANOG list" <nanog at nanog.org> 
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2021 12:54:37 PM 
Subject: Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections 

Was that the fault of the broadband provider or was that the fault of the indoor WiFi? Is it possible the router has so much interference from all of the neighbors and everyones using 2.4 GHz? What if that example had a cable connection with 960/40 mbps and they're limited to 5 mbps up because of the in house WiFi solution? 

Would upping the broadband plan to 1000/1000 fix that problem? 

Josh Luthman 
24/7 Help Desk: 937-552-2340 
Direct: 937-552-2343 
1100 Wayne St 
Suite 1337 
Troy, OH 45373 

On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 2:56 PM Chris Adams < cma at cmadams.net > wrote: 

Once upon a time, Mike Hammett < nanog at ics-il.net > said: 
> "Bad connection" measures way more than throughput. 
> 
> What about WFH or telehealth doesn't work on 25/3? 

More than one person in a residence, home security systems (camera, 
doorbell, etc.) uploading continuously, and more. 

I know multiple people that had issues with slow Internet during the 
last year as two adults were working from home and 1-3 children were 
also schooling from home. Parents had to arrange work calls around 
their kids classroom time and around each other's work calls, because of 
limited bandwidth. 

The time of the Internet being a service largely for consumption of data 
is past. While school-from-home may be a passing thing as the pandemic 
wanes, it looks like work-from-home (at least part time) is not going to 
go away for a whole lot of people/companies. 

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Chris Adams < cma at cmadams.net > 

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